Word: kingdoms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congo and Angola to a chartered company in which they would be "partners" with Germany, which would own the controlling interest. Hitler, in return for the above concessions, would bind Germany never to attempt to repossess the more valuable once-German colonies now held as mandates by the United Kingdom, France, the Dominions, and Japan...
Australian Angle. Dispatches from Australia pictured this spunky Dominion as aroused last week lest the United Kingdom have any sneaking thought of slaking Germany's land hunger by giving the Nazis a slice of New Guinea held under mandate by Australia. To block this the Dominion's famed and fiery Wartime Prime Minister William Morris Hughes, who at the Versailles Peace Conference was among those chiefly instrumental in having Imperial Germany despoiled of her colonies, has now at the age of 73 been made Australian Minister for External Affairs. Cocked & primed this week was oldster Hughes, ready...
...sport was made in the House of Commons last week by humorist A. P. Herbert, M. P. of the Population Bill introduced by Minister of Health Sir Kingsley Wood. According to Sir Kingsley, one of the "Big Six" of the Cabinet (Chamberlain, Hoare, Simon, Hailsham, Inskip & Wood), the United Kingdom is ceasing at such an alarming rate to bear children that its population will have dropped from 44,000,000 to 5,000,000 in 100 years...
...Advanced through second reading the Coal Royalties Bill whereby His Majesty's Government are to acquire on July 1, 1942 upon payment of $330,000,000 all coal in the United Kingdom (TIME...
Momentously the Cabinet announced it has completed drafting the bill by which on July 1, 1942 all coal in the United Kingdom is to become the property of the State. The present private owners were asked some years ago at what figure they would be willing to sell out, replied $750,000,000. The new bill is to force them to sell out for $330,000,000 and its expected passage will provide another $50,000,000 to compensate them for special losses expected to arise in so huge a transfer...